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Psalms 120
The first of the fifteen Songs of Ascents (Ps 120-134), pilgrim songs for the road up to Jerusalem. This one opens far from home: a cry against lying lips and a deceitful tongue, and a sharp question of what such a tongue deserves — "sharp arrows" and burning coals (vv.3-4). Watch the geography: the speaker laments living in Meshech and among the tents of Kedar — distant, hostile places that stand for exile among people who choose war.
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In my distress, I cried to the LORD. He answered me.
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Deliver my soul, LORD, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.
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What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful tongue?
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Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
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Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!
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My soul has had her dwelling too long with him who hates peace.
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I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war.
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Cántico gradual. A JEHOVÁ llamé estando en angustia, y él me respondió.
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Libra mi alma, oh Jehová, de labio mentiroso, de la lengua fraudulenta.
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¿Qué te dará, ó qué te aprovechará, oh lengua engañosa?
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Agudas saetas de valiente, con brasas de enebro.
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¡Ay de mí, que peregrino en Mesech, y habito entre las tiendas de Kedar!
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Mucho se detiene mi alma con los que aborrecen la paz.
- 7
Yo soy pacífico: mas ellos, así que hablo, me hacen guerra.
Where the climb begins
The closing line catches the whole ascent's tension: "I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war" (v.7). Set first in the collection, it explains why one would even start the journey — the dweller in hostile tents longs for the city of peace the later songs reach.
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